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Genghis' father, Yesugei, khan of the Borjigin, and nephew to Ambaghai and Qutula Khan, emerged as the head of the ruling clan of the Mongols, but this position was contested by the rival Tayichi’ud clan, who descended directly from Ambaghai.

GenghisKhan was by and large tolerant of the multiple religions he encountered during the conquests as long as they were obedient although all of his campaigns caused wanton and deliberate destruction of places of worship.

Heirs to Discord: The Supratribal Aspirations of Jamuqa, Toghrul, and Temüjin

While the number of GenghisKhan's children is unknown, the reproductive success of his male-line descendants, known to history as "the Golden Family," is not in doubt, especially those descended from the four sons of Bortei, GenghisKhan's impressive first wife.

Incredibly, as late as the early 20th century, three-quarters of a millennium after GenghisKhan's birth, the aristocracy of Mongolia, which was 6 percent of the population, consisted of his patrilineal descendants.

He suggested that among Inner Mongolians and the Hazaras, on whom GenghisKhan left such a genetic imprint that his Y-chromosome is found in at least a quarter of the men, there must have been a lot of inbreeding among his descendants.

The empire established by GenghisKhan eventually extended from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Black Sea in the west, and from Siberia in the north to the northern borders of mainland Southeast Asia.

GenghisKhan established a pony-express system that spanned his entire empire; enacting a code of laws resembling the Ten Commandments; and developing military tactics that today are studied at West Point.

Ambakhai Khan of the Taijiuts (one of the Mongol clans), an ancestor of GenghisKhan, was captured by his enemies the Tatars.

Because GenghisKhan conquered vast tracts of Asia and Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries and sired many offspring, it was assumed that the men share his genetic fingerprint.

The GenghisKhan test is part of a plan to do the same for paternal ancestry by mapping patterns of Y chromosomes, the genetic material handed down from fathers to sons that changes little over generations.

GenghisKhan’s descendants should “feel a sense of pride that they are descended from such a successful leader of men,” Ashworth said.

Summary GenghisKhan, the legendary Mongolian warrior and conqueror, may have left more than terror and destruction in his wake; he could have left his genes as well.

GenghisKhan, the fearsome Mongolian warrior of the 13th century, may have done more than rule the largest empire in the world; according to a recently published genetic study, he may have helped populate it too.

Documents written during or just after Khan's reign say that after a conquest, looting, pillaging, and rape were the spoils of war for all soldiers, but that Khan got first pick of the beautiful women.

According to a British geneticist who pioneered the research, Robinson appears to be a direct descendant of GenghisKhan, the Mongol warrior who conquered vast tracts of Asia and Europe in the 13th century.

Sykes said the obvious candidate is GenghisKhan, who stormed the world with his armies, conquering territory and siring many children.

Many Western academics also have reassessed the great Khan's legacy, arguing that he was a brilliant military tactician, innovative ruler and early globalizer whose empire saw an unprecedented mingling of goods and cultures along the Silk Road trade route linking China to Europe.

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GenghisKhan was as brutal as he was brilliant, uniting disparate Turko-Mongolian tribes to form the most extensive land empire known to history, stretching from the Yellow Sea to the Caucasus Mountains.

All the Mongol successor states in Eurasia traced their lineage to GenghisKhan, and indeed, descent from him was the primary source of political legitimacy for centuries.

The idea of depicting landscape with receding planes of mountains and trees outlined with heavy contours was probably transmitted through textiles, particularly the Chinese kesi, or silk tapestries, which often depicted lush aquatic scenes or swirling dragons set in roundels.

The studies of the newly-discovered Mongol genealogy may help unveil some mysteries in Chinese history, such as the whereabouts of the remains of GenghisKhan (1167-1227), the great Mongol emperor whose grandson founded the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), and the fate of his descendants.

On top of the familytree was Tulin Gujen, a man who lived in the late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and whose forefather, Djelme, contributed tremendously to GenghisKhan's unification of Mongolian tribes.

"GenghisKhan therefore decreed that his family ally with the Djelme's, and his own daughter was married to Djelme's son," said Hu Guozhi, a Mongolian scholar in the Harqin Left Wing Mongolian Autonomous County, west of Liaoning Province, northeast China, where the genealogy was found.

GenghisKhan was declared “the greatest military leader of the two millenia” by UNESCO.

According to the official data, GenghisKhan (real name Temuchin) was born in 1155 on the territory of present-day Mongolia, in the clan of kiyat.

He was declared khan and given a new name, GenghisKhan (the khan of the East), in 1206, at a general assembly of the clans’ leaders (kurultai).

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The truth is that only a tiny percentage of the families a few hundred years ago were like the one described in #4.

There was a vast disparity in the number of children that men sired -a lot had zero, while other like GenghisKhan had hundreds.

For my own family, counting branches where I have accurate birth dates at least six generations back, the average generation length is about 31 years (this crosses back and forth between paternal and maternal lines since I looked at all 4th great grandparents).

I was under the impression that Ghengis Khan took a fresh woman every night and did his best to get most of them knocked up - something like 1 in 5 in the greater Middle Kingdom is descended from the leader of the mongol hordes so this shouldn't be overly shocking.

Yeah, him and other 100 millions people are descendants of GenghisKhan.

Subotai was one of GenghisKhan's ablest lieutenants, and went on to distinguish himself after the khan's death.

In Khan's lifetime he and his warriors had conquered the majority of the civilized world, ruling an empire that stretched from Poland down to Iran in the west, and from Russia's Arctic shores down to Vietnam in the east.

The grand khan was pleased with Marco Polo and employed him for the next seventeen years as a personal representative of the khan in state matters.

Each 20 minutes this figure grows by 3,000, but the spookiest fact of all is that 0.5% of the male population — some 17m — are descendants of the Mongol marauder GenghisKhan.

Most men born in the previous millennium have around 20 descendants alive today, but Khan, who forged an empire stretching from Japan across Asia to the Caspian Sea, spread his chromosomes on a far grander scale, enjoying his pick of the beauties of his age.

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The maximum possible is 0.25 percent of all humans' ancestry, which would be a jaw-dropping figure, but it's probably significantly less because, being a patrilineal culture, the social advantages to being a descendant of GenghisKhan accrued primarily to those in the pure male line.

KublaiKhan's underling, the famed Italian traveler Marco Polo, wrote that each year the emperor took 30 additional virgins to be his concubines from a province renown for the beauty of its women.

We are a patriarchal, semi-monogamous species whose mating relationship is loosly conditioned or regulated by "culture"---that is, the religious beliefs which bind our societies together.

We owe existence of these two versions to the Nestorian priests who, under pressure of the advancing hordes of GenghisKhan, were forces to flee from the East towards the West, bearing all their ancient scriptures and ikons with them.

You find it in the grass, in the tree, in the river, in the mountain, in the birds of heaven, in the fishes of the sea; but seek it chiefly in yourselves.

Hang it upon the branch of a tree, and kneel upon the ground before the angel of water, and suffer the end of the stalk of the tailing gourd to enter your hinder parts (Hebrew text: anus), that the water may flow through all your bowels.

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Scientists have begun an ambitious five-year project to collect DNA samples from more than 100 000 people around the world to use them to create a virtual familytree of the genetic connections among humans, project organisers said on Wednesday.

Those communities are "absolutely key to the success of this project," Wells said, because their genetic markers are the most reliable indicators of shared human lineage, and because their cultures are under threat from migration and intermixing.

Mongolian native Tumur Battur learned that he was a descendant of famed Mongol conqueror GenghisKhan, courtesy of previous research that had discovered genetic similarities among ethnic groups along GenghisKhan's path across Asia.

The Brazilian dictator General Costa e Silva, with Family support, was overseeing regular fellowship groups for Latin American leaders, while, in Indonesia, General Suharto (whose tally of several hundred thousand “Communists” killed marks him as one of the century's most murderous dictators) was presiding over a group of fifty Indonesian legislators.

To the Family, Jesus is not just a name; he is also a real man. “An awesome guy,” a Family employee named Terry told the brothers over breakfast one morning.

In a document entitled “Our Common Agreement as a Core Group,” members of the Family are instructed to form a “core group,” or a “cell,” which is defined as “a publicly invisible but privately identifiable group of companions.” A document called “Thoughts on a Core Group” explains that “Communists use cells as their basic structure.

Geneticists have discovered that 8 percent of men living in the lands of the former Mongol Empire possess Y chromosomes resembling those of the Mongol ruling house, The New York Times reported last Tuesday.

Based on these findings, it's possible that 16 million men (that's half a percent of the world's male population) can claim descent from GenghisKhan.

Tyler-Smith says it's likely these signature chromosomes have been passed down from Mongol rulers.